Good morning. One of my favorite meals at La Caridad 78 on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, before it closed in 2020, was pork egg foo young, alongside yellow rice, black beans and a platter of maduros. I’d eat that for lunch with my friend Michael, dousing the omelets with vinegar and hot sauce,…
An ice cream company based in Brooklyn has issued a recall of all flavors of its soft serve ice cream and sorbet brand after two people who ate its vanilla chocolate flavor fell sick and were sent to the hospital, according to the company and health officials. The illnesses were possibly linked to listeria, a…
In the 1980s, long before he became a New York chef, a young Iacopo Falai lived across the hall from a hip uncle who sometimes made penne alla vodka for dinner. The combination of tomato, cream and chile wasn’t traditional by any means, especially in Florence, where he lived, but his uncle was a travel-loving…
Good morning. These are the days of miracle and wonder, Paul Simon sings through the device on the counter. This is the long-distance call. It is the highest of summer where I am, torpor is afoot, and all I want to do is bubble some birria de res (above) on the stove in advance of…
I woke up to the braying of donkeys. Opening the window to morning air perfumed by wisteria and honeysuckle, I could see the herd — 16 sweet-eyed animals in all — grazing by the olive groves of La Pescaia, a country estate turned idyllic inn that embodies a fantasy of pastoral happiness for me: life…
Here in Rías Baixas, the Galician home of albariño in northwestern Spain, the most typical answer to a direct question is, “It depends.” It’s not that Galicians are noncommittal or hedging their bets. It’s more that they are aware of the complexity of many situations and don’t want to overly simplify matters. That’s why if…
Sound the Recipe Matchmaker alarm, because we are so back. Last week, I asked you to send in your hyper-specific recipe requests so that I could pair you with some dishes from the New York Times Cooking database, and, as ever, you delivered. If I didn’t respond below to your request, fear not! I read…
Food prices continued to moderate in July, with costs for eggs, milk and chicken declining. But overall costs picked up slightly over the month, underscoring how stubborn price pressures have been. The cost of food rose 0.2 percent in July from the prior month, a slight increase from 0.1 percent in June, according to data…
Companies that sell food and other household staples — many of which have reported increased profits in their latest quarterly earnings — are weighing their next moves on prices as inflation cools. Food prices have gone up at a faster rate than other consumer goods over the past year, and it’s unclear when prices will…
The most sweltering part of summer is the time to reach for the coolest of cool produce — the cucumber, of course. Long prized for their thirst-quenching, sweat-stanching properties, cucumbers are a hot-weather balm all over the world, making their way into chilled soups, fresh salads and juicy sauces, or simply eaten out of hand,…